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Hi! I read your review in Bokura no Koi wa Shi ni Itaru Yamai no You de. It's been years since that review, but thought I'll comment anyway. The ending basically goes like this: The REAL Umi met Beniko in Sora's grave. But Umi can't cope up with his brother's death, so he decided that HE will BECOME Sora and came to the delusion that it was Umi who died, and he IS Sora. Even though he isn't really Sora. It goes like that haha. It's so messed up, and it was an open ending.

I know it's been 2 years since your review for Bokura no Koi wa Shi ni Itaru Yamai no You de, but I was interested in creating a discussion with someone about it since I've read it twice now and still feel like the ending actually leans more towards Umi being unable to cope with Sora's death and his still being alive. He makes it quite clear that everything would have been better had he been the one to die and expresses how he wished he could have been Sora, so I think that he assumes Sora's personality and essentially kills off Umi.

Well, I'm glad it helped; it was a bit of a wild guess, though.

Your Bokura no Koi wa Shi ni Itaru Yamai no You de Review



I haven't read the manga in question, but I'll share my views on it anyway.

First, let's assume that the manga is told from the perspective of Beniko, and thus because of the psychological trauma she goes through, she becomes an Unreliable Narrator. In other words, you shouldn't take all the events that happen in the manga at face value; consider that everything that happens is seen through the eyes of Benito.

Benito was in love with Sora, but all of a sudden, he started to become abusive (?) and Benito doesn't know how to deal with the situation. In her mind, the person that Sora has become isn't associated with the person that Sora was before. Because Sora has a twin named Umi, it made it much easier for her to separate the two from each other in her mind. The new Sora becomes Umi. Think of her thought pattern as such:

'Sora would never do that! That's not the Sora I know! That's right, this can't be Sora. How did I get mixed up? Oh, I remember, Sora has a twin. That's how it was so easy for me to get mixed up. Wait, Umi died in a traffic accident? That can't be! The person treating me abusively is Umi, who's right in front of me! That's right, Sora died in a traffic accident. That's the only explanation. They must have gotten mixed up.'

Or something to that effect.